✨ Governor's Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
No. 18.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1841.
PROCLAMATION.
By HIS EXCELLENC WILLIAM HOBSON,
ESQUIRE, Cap in in Her Majesty's
Royal Navy, and Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and
Vice Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c.,
&c.
WHEREAS, by a certain Act of Parliament,
passed in the Sixth year of the Reign
of His late Majesty, King George the Fourth,
entitled, "An Act for punishing offences com-
mitted by Transports kept to labour in the colonies,
and better regulating the powers of Justices of the
Peace in New South Wales," it is, amongst other
things, enacted—" That it shall and may be law-
ful for His Majesty, by any order or orders to be
by him from time to time for that purpose issued,
with the advice of his Privy Council, to appoint or
by any such order or orders in Council, to autho-
rise the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, or other
persons for the time-being administering the Go-
vernment of any of His Majesty's Foreign posses-
sions, colonies, or plantations, to appoint the place
or places within His Majesty's dominions, to
which any offender convicted in any such foreign
possessions, colonies, or plantations, and being un-
der sentence or order of transportation, shall be
sent or transported; and that "all such persons shall
within the place or places to which, in pursuance
of any such order or orders in Council, they shall
or may be so sent or transported, be subject and
liable to all such and the same laws, rules, and
regulations, as are or shall be in force in any such
place or places, with respect to convicts transported
from Great Britain." And, whereas His said
late Majesty, by an Order by him issued, by the
advice of his Privy Council, on the 11th day of
November, 1825, in pursuance of the said Act of
Parliament, and in exercise of the powers thereby
in him in that behalf vested, did order, "that
the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, or other
persons for the time-being administering the Go-
vernmant of any of His Majesty's foreign pos-
sessions, colonies, or plantations, shall, from time
to time, by Proclamations to be by them respec-
tively for that purpose issued, appoint the place
or places within His Majesty's dominions to which
any offender convicted in any such foreign pos-
sessions, colonies, or plantations, and being under
sentence or order of transportation, shall be sent
or transported."
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance
of the said Order in Couucil, and Act of Parlia-
ment, respectively, and in exercise of the powers
thereby respectively in me, as such Governor as
aforesaid vested, do appoint that any Offender
convicted in the said Colony, and being under
sentence or order of transportation, shall be
transported by the first convenient opportunity
to the Colony of Van Diemen's Land.
Given under my Hand and Seal at
Government House, Auckland, this
Fourth day of November, in the Year
of Our Lord One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Forty-one.
"W. HOBSON, GOVERNOR."
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
Colonial Secretary.
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NZ Gazette 1841, No 18
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🏛️ Proclamation appointing Van Diemen's Land as destination for transported offenders
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 November 1841
Proclamation, Transportation, Convicts, Van Diemen's Land, Act of Parliament
- William Hobson, Governor
- Willoughby Shortland, Colonial Secretary